browndisaster wrote:
nice work man, you're killing it. I need to do some suitcase deadlifts today. I did them a couple times and I think my spine ripped out.

how do you do DB leg curls? I've done them once but thought the DB would fall on my nuts well before I got to a heavy weight. I bet I could rig up something with the dip belt

Get a plate loaded dumbbell, get on a bench, hang legs off bench with hips on/half on bench, make sure the bottom of the top plate is on your feet, and do leg curls. It is no where close to my nuts (I'll get a video up next time I do them), and it doesn't feel like it is going to fall.

What do you mean by "I think my spine ripped out." that it beat the hell out of your abs/quadratus lumbrum/erectors, or that it was painful on your back? If the first, that is true. My obliques/quadratus lumbrum are actually sore at the moment, and it is very hard for that to happen to them.

Also, now that I have a bar (my old one) I don't mind beating the hell out of, I am going to start doing shovel deadlifts again. :)

I forgot to post this stuff. Anyway, for extra workouts I am going to try Chad Waterbury's 100 total reps of the an exercise. Basically up the weight when those muscles do not feel as though they will die a violent death (I'll go up to 10 next week if not earlier). Supposedly it will help with my recovery ability/endurance in the muscle/add size, but all I think it will probably do is get blood in there (which is always a nice thing since the back can get bitchy).

I am cutting down on my intensity for pressing, dropping volume of supplemental exercise on ME day by a set for tricep-extension-ish exercises and going for three sets of max reps if I do DB bench instead. I am going to cut down back volume to an all out set, or two or three heavy straight sets of a row variation, and four sets of weighted pull up variation followed by higher rep trap/reardelt/arm work.

I have beaten my pressing muscles into the ground, and I need to let them recover.

extra workout: reverse hyper 10X38

today: extra workouts (two one set each) 10X48
10X28

I am still going for a max squat tomorrow. I'll go for 345, and stop there unless 345 is easy.

browndisaster wrote:
I think I did them on a decline bench when I tried it a couple years ago. This makes more sense though. I'll give it a try when the sliding leg curls run their course.

Spine ripped out in a good way lol. I don't train my abs nearly as hard as I should.

Shovel deadlifts sound good too! I'm going to try some ring work when I exhaust the ab wheel

And don't forget one of the best core exercise for deadlifting: Good morning variations. I will likely always do a good morning variation on DE day as long as I stay injury free. Either strict top to bottom goodmornings with conventional/wide stance, squat mornings with whatever stance I am going to be squatting with, or arched back suspended good morning variations where I set up the same as I would for a deadlift.

Anyway, I shall go squat today, and go in for a PR. I'll call it a day for ME if I hit 345, or if form goes to hell/I miss a rep.

Next week is going in for a deadlift. My worst, and best built for lifts in two weeks. I feel as though my grip/glutes are ready for the deadlift. And my abs/erectors/lats/traps should be far more than adequate for keeping the bar path.

Kroc rowing 135 (kroc rowing what I started this log weighing), squatting twice bodyweight, approaching 2.5Xbw deadlift, overhead press on the same level as csulli, probably can touch and go 265 for the bench, I probably should. I stop this nonsense, and go directly. to "A strong man's log". In fact, I shall start a new log today for that. :)